Jan Machielsen

An auto de fe in Valladolid, 1558. Print attributed to Claes Visscher, 1596-1652. Opposite: an auto de fe in a courtyard, by Sebastián de Herrera-Barnuevo, 1619-71. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Public Domain.

The Ballad of the Inquisition’s Greatest Witch Trial

How a lost ballad detailing the Inquisition’s sentencing of 28 alleged Basque witches spread a witchcraft panic through 17th-century Spain.

Witches’ Sabbath, by Francisco Goya, 1798.

A Discovery of Witch-Hunts

Witch-hunting happened when and where states were weak. What does a newly discovered witch-hunt in 1582 reveal about France and its ‘enlightened’ officials?